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Victory Lane is Madison’s Avenue

February 14th, 2011 by

Round Two of the Ford V8 Supercar Valentines Day race @ 9.45pm race Down Under brought a packed grid at Watkins Glen, as had that evening’s previous race. In terms of numbers, the V8’s are really starting to roar! Madison Down was on pole in the green NVIDIA machine from Jonathan Salhani,  Darren Marsh, Wayne … Read the Rest »

Victory Lane is Madison's Avenue

February 14th, 2011 by

Round Two of the Ford V8 Supercar Valentines Day race @ 9.45pm race Down Under brought a packed grid at Watkins Glen, as had that evening’s previous race. In terms of numbers, the V8’s are really starting to roar! Madison Down was on pole in the green NVIDIA machine from Jonathan Salhani,  Darren Marsh, Wayne … Read the Rest »

Douna and Grebe Take Early GRAND-AM Lead

February 10th, 2011 by

With the dust barely settled on its inaugural championship, the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series got its second season under-way with a visit to the virtual Watkins Glen Cup circuit. The mixed class online-racing series open to subscribers of the iRacing.com Motorsport Simulation service, brings the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S … Read the Rest »

ISRA GP1 Championship Travels to the Heart of NASCAR Country

January 19th, 2011 by

Deep in the heart of what is traditionally NASCAR country, Atlanta, Georgia, has turned into a mecca for every type of US motorsports in recent years.  Not far from the city a racing enthusiast will find super speedway racing at Atlanta Motor Speedway, short track racing at Lanier National Speedway and road racing for both … Read the Rest »

Stergios Closes the Gap at Richmond

January 13th, 2011 by

Week 10 of the iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series held a special challenge for the sim racers: short oval racing under the lights of ¾ mile Richmond International Raceway. With lap times of just around 16 seconds, which  means an average speed of 169 mph or 272 kph, there is hardly any room  for mistakes or … Read the Rest »

inRacingNews Challenge Week 10: A R-Ovaling We Go

January 12th, 2011 by

The sim racers of the inRacingNews Challenge took their Pontiac Solstices and SpecRacer Fords to Charlotte Motor Speedway last week in a reprise of Week Four’s r-oval experience, one fusing much of CMS’ 1.5 mile oval with an infield road course to create a 12 turn, 2.25 mile challenge. Chris Hughson was certainly up to … Read the Rest »

ISRA GP1 Championship Brings F1 Back to The Glen

January 10th, 2011 by

From 1948 to 1955 sports car races were staged on the streets and local roads at the southern end of Seneca Lake in the small New York town of Watkins Glen.  Owing to growing safety concerns about racing of public roads, a permanent circuit – designed as a smaller version of the original 6.6 mile  … Read the Rest »

GRAND-AM at the Glen

December 22nd, 2010 by

The iRacing GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to the virtual Watkins Glen for its seventh round of mixed class racing. The highly competitive online-racing series, open to members of the iRacing.com service, brought the digital-replica Riley MKXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S to New York’s Finger Lakes region to race on the … Read the Rest »

Heartbreak for MacLean and Sirois

December 17th, 2010 by

The O’Neil PC Systems Grand Touring Championship (GTC) holds two endurance events every season.  The first of this season saw the ISRA field descend upon the ever popular Watkins Glen.  As one of iRacing’s most visited tracks all competitors have many laps in the books here and everyone was feeling quietly confident in the run-up … Read the Rest »

Tight Competition at the Glen

December 16th, 2010 by

The inRacingNews Challenge roared into upstate New York last week for its first encounter with Watkins Glen International.  The short Cup Circuit brought out the best in the sim racers in both the Pontiac Solstice and the SpecRacer Ford classes, witness the close battles for the week’s top points haul in both cars. Duncan Coppedge … Read the Rest »